A date has been chosen for the presentation of the Mystery Gift to all classes from our Piercestown Parents’ Association – Monday 18th October – time to be confirmed.
At this event, all classes will be presented with a ‘Class Gift’!
The teachers can hardly sleep with excitement! I wonder what they boys and girls are hoping for?!
Let the official countdown begin!
Hello everyone!
We can’t believe it’s already been a month since we returned to school. Time really does fly when you’re having fun, and our sixth class has been having a blast. There have been so many exciting changes and events that we just had to share them with you.
A Change of Scenery One of the biggest highlights of this month was our temporary relocation to the Scout and Guides building. We’ve turned this new space into our home away from home, and it’s been amazing to see how creative we can be in a different environment. The spacious hall has become the backdrop for our adventures in learning, and we’re making the most of every moment.
¡Hola! Spanish is Back We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve brought Spanish back into our curriculum. Learning a new language is always a fantastic journey, and we can’t wait to expand our horizons and connect with people from different cultures with the help of our amazing teacher Montse. ¡Vamos a aprender juntos! (Let’s learn together!)
Checkmate! Chess Class Our sixth class are becoming chess masters. It’s been incredible to watch them develop their strategic thinking skills while having fun with this classic game. Who knows? We might have a future grandmaster among us! They have also been showing third class how to play and some handy moves to know for the upcoming chess competition.
The Final Year in Our School As we embark on this journey, we’re also aware that this is our final year at this wonderful school. It’s a bittersweet feeling, but we’re determined to make every day count, create lasting memories, and support each other as we prepare for the next chapter in our lives.
We’re excited about what the future holds and grateful for the incredible start we’ve had in our first month back to school. Stay tuned for more adventures and updates from our sixth class. Until next time, remember to always embrace change, challenge yourself, and cherish every moment.
With enthusiasm,
Mr. Murphy
In October, we celebrated Maths Week in Piercestown N.S. The children participated in lots of different activities. Maths challenges and Maths Games became part of the school day. Enjoy the video 🙂
It is all systems go as Maths Week 2022 kicked off without restrictions! The fun began straight away with momentum being gathered with a Maths-Based Assembly for both the Junior end of the school and the Senior end.
Discussions took place around what is Maths? Who likes Maths? What Maths did anyone use before they came to school today and so forth.
The answers were brilliant with the children recognising Maths in all areas of our lives from making sure we don’t miss our favourite TV programme, to ensuring we turn up on the right day for gymnastics or soccer training, baking in the kitchen at home with our families, playing the drums, going shopping or shopping online to making sure some of the teachers knew how to make the perfect cup of coffee!
The children identified lots of jobs where Maths is required – bakers, bookies, scientists, farmers, teachers, Marine biologists, archaeologists, pitcrew teams for race drivers, builders, engineers, shopkeepers among others.
The junior end of the school recognised numbers in some characters such as Numberblocks, Ben 10, Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends and the senior end learned about Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Pythagoras and Florence Nightingale.
The Maths Week timetable is more interactive and exciting than before with lots of fun, games and competitions for young and old! Why not join in!
On Thursday 26th May Piercestown NS celebrated Orange Day (May 27th) to raise awareness of Prader-Willi Syndrome. The boys and girls of Senior infants went all out and we wore orange, ate orange treats and painted and coloured orange themed art. Teresa decorated the classroom with an array of orange balloons and we thoroughly enjoyed the day while learning more about PWS.
Here is a video of some of our highlights from the day.
When we returned after Easter Piercestown NS was lucky to be involved in the Award-winning Food Dudes programme – designed to promote and encourage healthy eating. Phase one of the programme proved to be a huge success with all classes getting repeat tastes of both fruit and veg each day to earn stickers, certficates and fabulous rewards such as water bottles and lunchboxes. The children really enjoyed the various days – even when sometimes tasting something which was ‘not their favourite!’
The food dudes programme has been proven to bring about significant change in children’s healthy eating habits and this will be reinforced in the home-based phase 2 which continues now. In phase two the children are encouraged to bring in their own fruit and veg from home and continue to build on habits formed in phase one. Post intervention phase 3 is a more long term ‘maintenance’ approach where we may still partake in our tasting days and children are continuously encouraged to bring in more fruit and veg. This will result in an increased consumption of fruit and veg – allowing the children to develop healthy eating habits for life! We look forward to seeing the children bringing in varieties of fruit and veg – the more exotic the better!!
Many thanks to Mrs. Susan Ryan who co-ordinated this programme for us.
The school was awash with green, white and gold on Wednesday 16th March as part of our national festivities.
There was craic, ceol agus fun galore!
Here is a sneaky peak of some of our footage which will be uploaded over the next days.
Tá an Comórtas Selfie ar ais! Time to go and find the cúpla focail in the local environment or indeed create a scene sa bhaile and include a frása!
Go on, bain triail as!
Well done to this young lady in 4th class who will get a bonus prize as the first entrant for 2022!
Plenty more ‘duaiseanna’ up for grabs. Let the fun begin! Watch this space for more entries to come!
World Book Day 2022 marks the celebration of 25 years of World Book Day! Join us in Piercestown N.S., for a fun filled week of activities beginning on Monday 28th February 2022!!
This year, we will again run our popular book cover competition, where we ask you to recreate your favourite book cover at home, and send the pictures to me at gtaylor@piercestownns.com
I will add them to our World Book Day cover collection on our school blog throughout the week, where you can view them all from home @ piercestownns.com. This competition is just for fun and open to all to get involved in. Keep an eye on the school blog throughout the week to see some of your fellow classmates and teachers getting involved…
Let the fun and games begin,
Ms. Taylor
Science Week 2021 was all systems go on Monday 8th November with the arrival of Professor Krypto from the Nutty Scientist Company. Even the weather co-operated, after a bad start to the day, to allow every boy and girl in Piercestown to witness this ‘science extravaganza’.
There were squeals of delight, laughter and fright heard around the grounds as the children were involved in many experiments ranging from using ‘dry ice’ to ‘playing with fire’. All safety precautions were in place and the children were told which science experiement was NOT to be attempted. This was a wow factor element where some staff were asked to set Professor Krypto on fire!
Check out some of the photos and videos from the Monday.
It may be Mid term break, but there was no stopping the activity at Piercestown N.S.
Sunday, 24th October saw two families from Ms. Sinnott’s class lead a fundraiser, a ‘ Tractor and Truck Run’ ,which turned out to be a phenomenal success. Check out the home page on our website for an update on this roaring success.
Wexford Equestrian Centre was also a hive of activity on Monday hosting the interschools competition. Piercestown National School saw itself represented in this sport for the first time ever! And represented they were! Congratulations to the Piercestown team, comprising of Sarah, Joe, Tommy and Jack who put in a wonderful performance coming 2nd out of a total of 17 schools! What an AMAZING achievement for their first ever show! How proud are we! We look forward to uploading some photos in the coming days as we receive them.
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